Ugh why is every other word on their site in quotes?? They do realize it means “not really” don’t they? I can’t bring myself to purchase products from companies that say their products are “new” and “best” and etc. etc…
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Bottlehead Sale:
Do we need another Crack in the World? Heck yeah. Starting this Thursday, August 18th the Crack headphone amp kit for high impedance headphones will be on sale for $299 ($50 off the regular price) and the Speedball upgrade kit will be on sale for $99 ($16 off the regular price).
We get requests all the time for a sale on our best selling product. The reality is we can’t afford to offer prices this low on a regular basis. Because of this we are offering only a limited number of kits (just 50) at this special price. Last year when we had this sale the kits sold out in a couple of days. These kits will be made to order. Shipment of the first kits ordered will begin as soon as we see orders. We ship kits in the order that we receive your purchases. Be advised that it might take a couple of weeks for the last kits ordered to ship. So the earlier in the sale you order, the sooner your kit will ship. Online orders only.
We also know that we will get emails asking when this kit will be on sale again. The answer to that is - we don’t know when, or if, the next sale will be. The last Crack sale was a year ago. Prices are on the rise these days and the future of special offers like this is uncertain. So be sure to take advantage of this one.
I do want to see if they put their power cable on sale too like in the past but I am not optomistic.
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Enleum is releasing an HPA-01M sucessor soon
https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/enleum4/
Edit: reading further this us aiming to be a HPA-21 replacement and will come in betweem the two in size. Didnt see any specs though
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Seems like a cool product, don’t have any real interest in it though. My wallet can breath for a second and then remember there are other (bigger) expenses coming.
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Centrance is dropping a desktop stack and its kinda sexy tbh
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Interesting price point.
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Agreed. The amp and dac seem to be shooting for dofferent teirs almost. Both the current price and MSRP are kinda no-mans zones tbb
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Holo audio made a DDC
Not much info yet. I pinged tim to see whats up but no responce yet
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Loving the look of the stack
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I like how that website uses the same color scheme and font as the most visited adult website on the internet.
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Older, new msb streamer basically, I guess further increasing the cost of a full msb setup lol
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Was even more visited when it had an amateur section.
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Design wise, they have hired people from Apple 
double fpga… oh boy! Maybe we get in the near future dsd4096??
At least their explicit about it up sampling and filtering.
I want to own MSB gear just because the chassis cut from solid billet aluminum are cool.
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Ibasso DX170 DAP is out kinda? Some places list it and some say coming soon. Looks like an interesting lower priced DAP with Android 11. Includes digital/usb out as well as a dac mode plus the usual features.
https://www.ibasso-shop.eu/?product=ibasso-dx170-preorder-available-at-august
A lot of ways to skin a cat, as long as there’s good sound coming out of it, I don’t care if they spread orange marmalade and butter on it.
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Have you ever tried to skin a cat? There’s really only one good way to do it.
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Somehow missed it, but apparently the baby xiaudio dac (Kdac) has released at 1800 USD RRP
No battery for portable use though 
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Looks like earmen finally released the rest of their stack to pair with the tradutto (although turns out it’s not that new lol)
CH-AMP: EarMen CH-Amp
Staccato (streamer): EarMen Staccato
Also a diablo/idsd or hifi m8 competitor: EarMen Angel
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